Justin
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Well, hi again fella's. Been a bit quite lately so thought I'd post for the sake of posting. I did my first brew in quite a while last night. Needless to say that I've got a little out of practice and more importantly should have checked my gear over (after lending it to a friend) before I started. No I though, jumped right in I did.
Planned to start first thing Sunday morning, but I forgot about a working bee at the shooting range, so I ducked off to that and didnt end up getting started until around two. So we're running a bit behind schedule from the start.
Well, cut a long story short, I finally finished my brew at 11:30pm in the cold Tassie winter. Turns out one of my elements in my HLT blew when my friend last used it so I was running off only one element, which substantially increased the time it took to heat the water to strike temp. Then at 8:30pm on a Sunday night, I ran out of gas at the start of the boil (No fill places at that time of night, arg!! ). No worries, swap over to the bigger bottle and different reg-and no action there! The reg is stuffed. So I quickly ducked into work and "borrowed h34r: " a bottle from there to get me boiling again :beerbang: .
At least when the ambient temperature is not much above 2 degrees and your water might be all of 7-8C you can chill super quick :super: .
I just did a nice simple pale ale with Wyeast 1056. Hit my OG of 1050 perfectly. Had a bit of TF Marris Otter, JW Pale, JW Wheat and TF crystal. Hopped with a selection of Fuggle, Challenger and Vanguard for flavour and aroma. (Trying to use up a bit of my hop stocks). Beautiful copper colour so lets hope it comes out ok after the pain and suffering (well frozen testicles :unsure: anyway). Damn brewing in fun isn't it.
Beer stocks were low, a beer had to be made.
Cheers guys.
Justin
Planned to start first thing Sunday morning, but I forgot about a working bee at the shooting range, so I ducked off to that and didnt end up getting started until around two. So we're running a bit behind schedule from the start.
Well, cut a long story short, I finally finished my brew at 11:30pm in the cold Tassie winter. Turns out one of my elements in my HLT blew when my friend last used it so I was running off only one element, which substantially increased the time it took to heat the water to strike temp. Then at 8:30pm on a Sunday night, I ran out of gas at the start of the boil (No fill places at that time of night, arg!! ). No worries, swap over to the bigger bottle and different reg-and no action there! The reg is stuffed. So I quickly ducked into work and "borrowed h34r: " a bottle from there to get me boiling again :beerbang: .
At least when the ambient temperature is not much above 2 degrees and your water might be all of 7-8C you can chill super quick :super: .
I just did a nice simple pale ale with Wyeast 1056. Hit my OG of 1050 perfectly. Had a bit of TF Marris Otter, JW Pale, JW Wheat and TF crystal. Hopped with a selection of Fuggle, Challenger and Vanguard for flavour and aroma. (Trying to use up a bit of my hop stocks). Beautiful copper colour so lets hope it comes out ok after the pain and suffering (well frozen testicles :unsure: anyway). Damn brewing in fun isn't it.
Beer stocks were low, a beer had to be made.
Cheers guys.
Justin